Friday, 24 April 2015

Remove ads by 5StarDeals

If you are seeing windows pop-ups and advertisements when we are surfing, may be an adware or PUP program has infected your computer. 5StarDeals claims to help us with tools displaying coupons, discounts on the online stores, and other seemingly interesting features for us.

It's independent of the browser and search engine we use, whether we are seeing advertising 5StarDeals, we may be infected with a virus. 5StarDeals isn't considered technically as a virus, but has many features such malicious rootkit capabilities, will hijack your browser and spy user preferences.If you download and use 5StarDeals program, can you agree and to consent for show all ads from third persons, provide access to collect and use our personal information, such as history On Line, email, including other private data.

How can you infect with 5StarDeals?

You can download 5StarDeals from their official website. But the most common method is downloading freeware software, which comes as an optional software to install. Websites like Softonic, Soft32.com or Brothersoft also promote such programs in their downloads, so if we downloaded a program of these or other similar web sites, you can finish with 5StarDeals installed. You must be attentive to the installation of this kind of software because if we don't review the steps in the installation process you can finish installing this potentially unwanted software (PUP) on your computer.

Other methods may be when your are a user of P2P program and you share files, you can download a malicious or pirate software. Or with spam emails or emails with unknown sender with links to malicious websites or infected attachments.

When 5StarDeals are installed in our computer, will use our navigation data (like all our activities, bookmarks and history) to show specific ads where you can to click on it. This App may display advertisements, can also show pop-up advertisements and text ads, can show coupons and other offers available websites we visit. 5StarDeals will also show messages when searching for products with a See Similar button, and when we click you show ads by 5StarDeals. 5StarDeals display advertisements on web pages you are visiting with the message "Ads by 5StarDeals" or "Powered by 5StarDeals", "Brought by 5StarDeals", "Articles by 5StarDeals". The main objective of the app is to earn money pay-per-click, promote the sales of products or services on websites of dubious origin, and display advertisements and links promoted by their publishers.

Will collect our personal information: operating system, type of browser, search queries typed URL, visited pages, Internet protocol (IP), unique identification numbers, geographic location and other information. You can redirect us to malicious websites which can infect other dangerous malware. They can steal private data and credentials of all types (bank data).

If we detect the presence of 5StarDeals or we are redirects to websites related to 5StarDeals, it's a sign that we are infected with malware. It's necessary to perform a full system scan and eliminate threats detected.

How to remove 5StarDeals?

Note: All software used to remove 5StarDeals it's totaly free. These steps are tested and should remove this threat in major browsers. For successfully remove the adware 5StarDeals you must follow all the steps in the order shown.

Very important: If during the process of removing the threat you have any problems, please you must stop.

Manually uninstall 5StarDeals or any malicious program installed on your computer.

If you are using Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 you will go to Control Panel / Add Remove Programs.

If you are using Windows 8, drag your mouse to the right edge of the screen, select Search from the list and write Control panel. You can also right click on a lower left (which was the start button) and select Control Panel.

When the Control Panel windows opens, click on the Uninstall a program and follow steps uninstall process. If you have any questions about a program you have installed, you can search the program in this blog.

You can use tools like CCleaner and Revo Uninstaller to uninstall these kind of applications, are very simple to use. You can download this programs from my Tools section.

Sometimes this kind of adware installs malicious extensions in your browsers. In that case you must remove it.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox

Click on the three lines icon and select the Add-ons option and click on Extensions, or open the menu Tools / Add-ons / extensions. Then select the option to delete 5StarDeals and all malicious extensions detected.

One of the best free tools for malware detection that allows us to be protected from possible infection from viruses, worms, trojans, rootkits, dialers, spyware and malware.

You can download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free from the Anti-Malwarepage.

Double click on the installer downloaded and then click Run. Select language and click Ok. Malwarebytes click Next. The installation start and you will see the Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Setup Wizard screen and click Next.

Install the program and follow each of the steps without changing any default settings. When installation is complete click Enable free trial of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and click Launch Malwarebytes Antimalware and then click Finish to exit Setup.

When the program starts will perform a check of the database and update it if it's outdated.

When update is finished click to the button Scan Now for begin to scan your system to detect threats.

Other method to scan threats is click to option Scan and then select the option Threat Scan, finally click the button Start Scan.

Malwarebytes begin to scan the computer and and you must wait for it to finish.

When the scan is complete will see the results. For delete the threats click the button Remove Selected.

HitmanPro is a second opinion scanner, designed to rescue your computer from malware (viruses, trojans, rootkits, etc.) that have infected your computer despite all the security measures you have taken (such as anti virus software, firewalls, etc.).

You can download HitmanPro from the Anti-Malwarepage, and save it to your desktop. You must download the version 32 bits or 64 bits depending on the operating system you have.

Double-click the file for to see the home screen and then click Next.

Select the option Yes or No and click Next for install HitmanPro.

HitmanPro begins to scan for to find threats.

When HitmanPro has finished, it will show a list of all infections detected. We will click on the Next button to remove the threats detected.

Double-click on the file named ccsetupXXX.exe for to proceed to installation. First, select the language, then select the options by default and install the program. Finally select the option to run CCleaner and will press Finish.

When Ccleaner is running click at the Cleaner option and then click to the Analyze button. Don't change any option, use the options by default.

After the scan you can see the results. Then click the button Run Cleaner for to clean your computer.

After that scan, click Registry option and then click Scan for Issues button. Don't change any option, use the options by default.

When the scan is finished click to the Fix selected Issues.. button and make a BackUp of the registry. Finally click Fix All Selected Issues button.

Repeat the operation and click the Scan for Issues button and then Fix selected Issues button to don't find more issues.